Protagonists of Medicine

Immunology and pathology.- Foreword.- Paul Ehrlich’s Doctoral Thesis: A Milestone in the Study of Mast Cells.- The Contribution of Gianni Bonadonna to the History of Chemotherapy.- Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and the Clonal Selection Theory of Antibody Formation.- The Contribution of Bruce Glick to the Definition of the Role Played by the Bursa of Fabricius in the Development of the B-Cell Lineage.- Miller’s Seminal Studies on the Role of Thymus in Immunity.- The Fundamental Contribution of Robert A. Good to the Discovery of the Crucial Role of Thymus in Mammalian Immunity.- The Fundamental Contribution of Jan C. Waldenström to the Discovery and Study of the So-Called Waldenström Macroglobulinaemia.- Vascular biology and angiogenesis.- Foreword.- Giulio Bizzozero and the Discovery of Platelets.- A milestone in the Study of the Vascular System: Wilhelm Roux’s Doctoral Thesis on the Bifurcation of Blood Vessels.- Stephen Paget and the “Seed and Soil” Theory of Metastatic Dissemination.- The Contribution of Roberto Montesano to the Study of Interactions Between Epithelial Sheets and the Surrounding Extracellular Matrix.- The Seminal Work of Werner Risau in the Study of the Development of the Vascular System.- Judah Folkman, A Pioneer in the Study of Angiogenesis.- The Contribution of Harold F. Dvorak to the Study of Tumour Angiogenesis and Stroma Generation Mechanisms.- Napoleone Ferrara and the Saga of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor.- Pietro M. Gullino and Angiogenesis.